I am very new to Apple but have you tried the gimp drivers for
printers? perhaps this group can tell you if one of them would work.
I wanted my G3 and G4 to use the same printer,an Epson stylus Color
880. There was no problem with the G4 but the only driver that worked
on the G3,using 10.3.9,was a Gimp driver.
I think you are asking about use of a printer?
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Yersinia wrote:
>
>
> y
> straight-up OS 9 just fine, no problems -- until now (well, the
> last few
> weeks).
>
> 7200/100 and
> Performa 475) used with Transmissibles. Well, guess what's in the
> Chooser
> -- the LaserWriter 8 driver, which is the driver for the 4/600 PS!
> Ummmm-huh? I didn't start using the 4/600 PS until I got the G4,
> and as I
> said, hooking that up didn't happen under OS 9 or with the Chooser
> at all
> -- I did it under OS X with its setup utility. And no, there wasn't
> any
> LaserWriter/300LS driver in there either.
>
> OK, so ErnieG from the OS 9 list sent me the LaserWriter/300LS driver,
> and I installed it in the Extensions folder.
>
> Question That Never Got Answered: How come my Mac still booted and ran
> fine in OS 9 even with that missing driver (for a printer I no longer
> had, and I don't PRINT in OS 9 at all anymore), as long as I
> clicked OK
> on the prompt -- from late September 2006 until late October/early
> November 2008?! Why would it start freezing up NOW? But, OK, let's
> give
> it the missing driver since Ernie was kind enough to send it.
>
> However, apparently there seems to be more to my problem than just the
> missing driver. True enough, after having installed the one Ernie
> sent,
> it stopped whining about the lack of the driver, but....it's messed up
> anyway -- I could move my mouse pointer around the screen but couldn't
> get into any of the folders or open any of the menus....so I went
> back to
> OS X, rebuilt the desktop from Classic Prefs (this didn't fix it) and
> then tried booting in 9 with Extensions Off.
>
> That worked, sort of -- I could get into the folders and menus (LOL
> and I
> even opened the Chooser to see the driver in there), but...ultimately
> this isn't any good, because my Sims game won't boot (it plays in OS X
> which is how I usually play, but periodically I need to be straight
> in OS
> 9 with it).
>
> Trying to boot my Sims game in OS 9 with Extensions Off (double-
> clicking
> its icon), I get the prompt:
>
> "InterfaceLib-GetComponentResource could not be found. You may
> need to
> install a newer version of InterfaceLib-GetComponentResource."
>
> I think maybe I got that because I was up in Extensions Off. This game
> was actually built for OS 9 (its later expansion packs, which I do
> have
> most of, were carbonized for OS X compatibility), and I was playing
> it in
> OS 9 exclusively prior to getting OS X. Since getting OS X, I play in
> Tiger with Classic on, or, occasionally in straight-up OS 9. I
> never had
> a problem with it in 9 since getting X until now.
>
> I posted this result on the OS 9 list a couple weeks ago, haven't
> heard
> anything, but before deciding to bother you guys on the G-List
> about it,
> this past weekend I went ahead and did a clean reinstall of 9 (which
> somehow didn't come with the LaserWriter/300LS driver, so I slipped
> it in
> myself.)
>
> But that didn't fix it either. In fact, I started having another weird
> problem -- when I'd option-restart to show the bootable disks/be
> able to
> choose my 9 HD, the OS 9 HD *disappeared entirely* -- the option-
> restart
> screen only showed the OS X HD. I used to get BOTH my OS X and OS 9
> HDs
> when I did an option-restart, always!
>
> So -- do any of you have any idea of what I need to do to get my G4 to
> boot in OS 9 properly? I'm starting to feel desperate now.
>
> Thank you,
>
> ~Yersinia.
>
> ________
>
> "It doesn't take all kinds; we just have all kinds."
>
>
> >
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